 Hello and welcome to another episode of frightfully forgotten horror movies, but before we get started What are we drinking today? We are drinking demon wind. It's a Chinook smash. Oh, yeah The demon wind to be coming out of your ass after More than demon wind coming out of your ass after today We're gonna bring to you 1984's mutant or also known as night shadows This movie started to be directed by Mark Rossman who did house on sorority Roe Which we did we covered that one click the link above John Budd Cardo's actually did direct this whole movie and he did kingdom of the spiders Which we featured you can click the link above this movie stars wings Houser. What kind of name is wings? That's it's an odd name. That's for sure. Maybe he flew out of the womb Super easy delivery he's in tons and tons of stuff But I want to mention that he was in kung fu the legend continues as Cain's evil brother Damon No originality there Hopkins is also in this movie He's in tons of notable movies midnight express the wild bunch and American graffiti Lee Montgomery is also in this and he's in another movie we covered burns offerings with Oliver Reed He's in another horror movie called dead of night. This movie starts out with this old man In this huge house and he goes into the basement. I guess looking for stuff We see this hand to grab his face and there's all this steam that comes off his face He gets all boiled up. Okay. Hold on. I don't like this open shirt Dude from the beginning. I think it's too much. Don't have to do from the beginning just close it up We get introduced to Josh and Mike and they're both brothers and they're on vacation Josh starts joking around starts taking his hands off the steering wheel and the car kind of veers off into the opposite lane They look back and there's a truck right in the way Just narrowly avoid it all of a sudden what hits them from behind is that truck that they narrowly missed And it's a bunch of hillbillies with this woman in there too his woman hillbilly Smashing into the side of their car Yeah, Ramiad throwing beer bottles. No, you're a city boy. Come on Yeah, they end up running Josh and Mike right off the road into this creek Josh and Mike end up Thumb in it and they happen upon this male guy who stops in this pickup truck He's got like the bandana around his throat and he's all chewing on that cigar Tell them all yeah, I hunt all kinds of things aliens and perverts He drops them off at the outskirts of town so as Josh and Mike make their way into town They stumble upon this drunken bum who's made his way out of the bar And he's all steamed up too and he's dead They get to the bar to try and call the cops and they run into those fucking hillbillies They kind of get into this huge fucking bar fight And the sheriff breaks them up They tell the sheriff well, we found this guy behind those buildings dead They go over to investigate And the bum actually turns around and it's not the same guys. He's all just some piss tank He's all just passed out They do see some of this weird yellow ooze type shit that's been left on the ground And the sheriff goes and collects some of it Meanwhile, the sheriff tells them well, you guys can stay in this house where they have a bed and breakfast No, we don't have too many people staying here now Mike hears some weird sounds outside of his room right and the doorknob is kind of jiggling And something grabs him and drags him under and you hear all that steaming the sheriff Drops off that vial to the doctor in the morning. Josh wakes up and he notices that his brother's gone He goes back to that town bar at the bar. Josh runs into the bartender Holly willing to help him look for his brother. She just also happens to be a school teacher too She's got two that two jobs two very demanding jobs mind you So she's got to go to the school house and they run into this kid billy who's at the school house all by himself Yeah, yeah, he's all crying and everything my parents don't want me Josh goes in the basement to look for his brother And this corpse falls from the rafters And it's this little girl who's all boiled up and steaming again And who happens to be down there too? I guess he's like the caretaker or something One of those fucking hillbillies from before so this is the third time He's running into this hillbilly guy and they get in this big fight with these pipes Instead of like a sword fight. It's like a iron pipe fight knocks that one pipe open all that steam goes into that guy's face Josh gets away and the hillbilly blames the death of the little girl on josh So the sheriff has to find out what the hell's going on here. There's dead bodies popping up That's a small town. You got this outsider who's causing a ruckus. He doesn't really know what to believe Not to mention this weird. Oh, shit that he's been finding josh stows away in holly's car Oh, he's in this pain and then he just wakes up in the doctor's office The doctor tells him he's got chemical burns where the girl landed on him So she burnt him just by touching him holly tells josh There's this new chemical plant that just opened up They go visit the chemical plant people dumping all this weird yellow sludge into the water supply And that mel guy is all they're running it to then i'm getting some big fight with all the workers Pushes him in all that yellow shit holly comes to the car I like how he just jumps in Half into the car with his legs hanging out holly remembers that billy is at the school still so she needs to go Make sure he's okay josh goes to the bed and breakfast because he found something really odd about the old woman And her daughter had gone missing holly finds billy in the bathroom He's all crying is like oh, i'm glad you're not one of them all these like mutant people start Storming the bathroom they go hide in the stall josh goes into the basement of the bed and breakfast and finds a bunch of bodies and Mutants are attacking him That's where we're gonna end the plot if you want to see how the hell josh get out of his situation How holly is going to get out of hers and what the sheriff is going to do about all this Watch mutant so the first thing that is Noticable with this movie are the characters right away We get introduced to josh and mike two very strong leads in the whole movie They're very different the dynamic between the two is really good, you know Josh is the older brother telling mike to loosen up have some fun Yeah, mike's a bit of a tight ass for some reason walking around the shirt opened the whole goddamn movie until he dies Yeah shirts like this Exactly those hillbillies right in the truck and then in town in that bar And then throughout the whole movie they're terrorizing these city boys keep running into those hillbillies There's another set of you know a great characters like you don't know their names You just know them as the gang of hillbillies. Exactly. They're very memorable. Yeah, especially that leader guy The sheriff is a dynamic character too And I I like the way they sort of flesh out the sheriff's character You don't learn much from the sheriff himself It's everybody around him that he runs into that sort of say the odd thing He loods to the sheriff's backstory. Yeah, like he was a big city cop Now he's a small town sheriff, but he's got a drinking problem He used to have a relationship with the doctor. She bites the bullet And he finds that tape recorder and he plays it listens to her being killed by the mutants feel for him Right his characters fleshed out from nothing that he's done himself. He's a really good Compassionate hard ass The music in this movie is really good too And I noticed right off the bat before any story unfolded The music hooked me in before anything else did right and it's done by richard bands Did the music for the house on sorority row which we just covered the movie is a huge commentary on pollution Right, which is which was huge in like the very late 70s and getting into the 80s, right? You got a toxic avenger and stuff like that Pollution was enormous in the 80s and this takes full advantage of that and it turns people Into monster the mutants Yeah, because of it and it's kind of neat It's a different take on this whole zombie thing because they're not zombies. They're not the living dead But they're zombie-ish these people touch you and Yeah, steam you with these steam hands or whatever steamed hams That brings us to the effects too the steam the steam is cool These mutants have a touch that kills burn through the glass That's a really cool effect and they break you know, they bust the glass up It's a good effect too. It works really well a lot of fog In this which I love movies a lot of fog and it makes sense because these people are hot They're steaming so it's not like there's fog for no reason. Yeah The fog is kind of the steam from them the lighting again is great Like you mentioned a lot of the lighting is from Things in the surrounding, you know the the headlights scenes aren't just lit for no reason Yeah pacing for this movie is really good too because there's not only a lot of action But in between the action spots, there's a lot of good character building and storytelling in the beginning With that big crazy car chase on the highway when they're ramming them It's a great action scene, but then it gets more into character building and then another good action scene the bar fight Which is pretty crazy more character building and then there's more action yet the action sequences are great Like when the hordes of the zombies throws you a lot of curveballs, right? How are they going to get out of these situations? You're completely swarmed. There's no way out They put them in the impossible situation and that happens more than once and like in the way they get out It's like ah, I didn't see that Well, I like how they don't exactly show it right away too, right? And then they show the solution just a little bit after tons of curveballs from the title of the movie called mutant I expect there to be one mutant And then no there's multiple mutants Fooling you you think it's gonna go one way and it goes a different way, which is good It makes for a good fun movie. Yeah, exactly. It always keeps you on your toes this movie I don't like stuff this cookie cutter. You can see it coming from a mile away It's like oh, okay. Yeah, they they got me there. Yeah, this one. Yeah It's funny because this one you can see the cookie cutter coming and then it veers off. Yeah, it's like holy shit Didn't see that one coming the one thing I didn't like about this movie And I didn't notice until near the end where shit really hits the fan Holly is freaking out and she's like hysterical and she becomes like the Falling down catatonic. Yeah, it's like okay like that's Too archaic of a stereotype for it didn't help the movie that she was so Bumbling and hysterical if I can't go on I can't yeah No, like it's those days are over It's the 80s is time for the strong female lead who could handle herself. It would have been nice if she got more Uh courageous than josh. Yeah, actually or even on the same. Yeah on the same level Yeah, but no she becomes she kind of just melts down and becomes useless But yeah, I could have done without that takes a zombie Not genre but the zombie idea with horrors and people who come and get you but kind of switches it around Yeah, it's you got that zombie feel but it's not a zombie movie Yeah, and it happens in a small town where it seems like there's still no escape, right? Yeah, it's an isolated incident. It's not the whole world is ending. It's like, you know Chisholm the fan in the small town. It's got everything that a good horror movie should have Yeah, and it puts you on the edge of your seat like it should you're always wondering how are they gonna get out? And why is this happening? Yeah, right? So until next time Keep drinking and watch mutant and get all